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Rep. Ro Khanna’s on-air declaration that Democrats “cannot” fund ICE without what they call “safeguards” is the latest example of a party more interested in grandstanding than governing, and he made those remarks on Fox’s The Big Weekend Show as the SAVE America Act stalls in the Senate amid a partial government shutdown.
This manufactured crisis follows the highly publicized death of Alex Pretti during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, an event that has been used to justify a Democratic blockade of DHS funding and to demand sweeping changes to ICE and CBP. The facts of the scene and the subsequent uproar have pushed vulnerable Senate Democrats to threaten to withhold votes and force a shutdown rather than responsibly negotiate solutions.
Make no mistake: withholding funding for front-line law enforcement because a single faction demands policy concessions is a formula for chaos, not accountability. Democrats in the Senate are flirting with a shutdown by insisting on conditions that would hamstring operations at a time when the country needs order at the border and certainty for federal employees and citizens alike.
And while Congress squabbles, voices like Khanna’s—who has previously floated defunding or rolling back resources to ICE—signal the party’s move away from law and order toward activist theater. Their posture is insulting to the families of victims and to agents who put themselves in harm’s way; it also betrays a dangerous double standard where ideology trumps public safety.
The practical consequence of this saber-rattling is painfully clear: a partial shutdown will punish Social Security office visitors, small businesses relying on timely permits, and servicemembers awaiting support, while doing nothing to actually resolve the underlying problems at the border. Lawmakers should reject the politics of paralysis and pass funding that includes sensible oversight without kneecapping the agencies that protect Americans.
Patriotic Americans should see this for what it is: a choice by Democrats to score ideological points instead of safeguarding communities. Voters will remember which side stood with law enforcement and common-sense border security, and which side opted for performative virtue-signaling that risks shutting down the government and endangering everyday Americans.
